Choosing a style of personalised URL
March 13th, 2008
I think that pretty much all the ‘Personalised URL’ jobs that I have ever needed to do have always been of the directory style, e.g:
www.domain.com/mylovelyusername
However, it strikes me that a better and more programatically favourable format is the sub-domain pattern, e.g:
mylovelyusername.domain.com
In this instance you don’t have to worry about holding information in sessions, or setting up anything else complicated to make sure that they visit that URL first – it doesn’t matter with the sub-domain pattern as you always have there unique identifier to hand in the URL. Im not wholly sure why it is that more people don’t see the benefit of doing this – if you ask me it ‘feels’ more personal that a one time visit to a directory style URL.
2 Responses to “Choosing a style of personalised URL”
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March 13th, 2008 at 12:44 PM
www.domain.com/mylovelyusername
shares and increases google page rank for www.domain.com
mylovelyusername.domain.com
splits and divides google page rank for www.domain.com
its a marketing thing.
D
March 13th, 2008 at 03:04 PM
Sure, I understand that – Take sites like “stumble upon”, the way in which they use the sub-domain pattern for member pages feels significantly better (in my humble opinion).
In an instance where your using it for member pages, Im not sure the fact that it ‘divides page rank’ is a major issue?
Cheers
Tim